Thursday, February 2, 2012

Job searching and resume writing

The course I chose to look at was under Career Course; Succeeding on the Job. It had many down to earth tips and suggestions. Mostly common sense ideas, but all in one organized place. The course outline in the lefthand column allowed me to skip past some of the sections, and to quickly find the ones that I wanted to look at. I chose the e-book for the Postal worker exam. It is a complete book of 194 pages of information and exams, at my fingertips!

Lesson 2-Learning Express Library

I took a reading comprehension test. I only answered a few questions before stopping for my score. I really liked how in the scoring page it told me not only why I got an answer correct but why it was the best answer among all other choices. The explanation helped verify any concerns I may have had in my answer choice. This site would be very helpful to many people and very easy to navigate.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

lesson 1C-Worldbook Foreign Language Edition

In the world Book Foriegn Language edition I listened to an article using the read aloud feature. The voice was a little robot-y but I was able to follow the highlighted words. I think this feature could help spanish students needing help with pronunciation.

I looked at the visual dictionary in both the Spanish and French editions. It took a few minutes to think of a word in both languages, but I tried pommes in french and sombrero in spanish. I was able to read the definition in the language chosen and when I highlighted a section it also showed up in english. This would be helpful to students as they are learning the language. It would help them with their comprehensive skills, by seeing the words being used in sentences.